13 Oct 2024 8:43 am
Many people are generally aware of the Biblical story of the origin of jews, but they don't examine it enough to observe the glaring contradiction.
We are told the jews were expelled from Egypt, which I believe is true, and then they wandered the desert for a while until they conquered the canaanites...and as the Bible says, lived in houses they did not build and drank wine from grapes they did not grow.
So the common people of old Jerusalem were canaanites. The canaanites were actually semites...like the arabs. Jews percieved a racial difference between themselves and canaanites, and they viewed the canaanites as their slaves. So no, biblical old jerusalem was not a jewish kingdom. It was a canaanite kingdom which happened to be ruled by jews.
In the Ancient era, humans found it impossible to fathom accepting a foreign ruler. This is why when Sargon of akkad conquered sumeria, he made up a story that he was born in sumeria and floated down the river to akkad as an infant in a basket. That was a way to prevent constant revolts and disobedience from the sumerians.
We are told the jews were expelled from Egypt, which I believe is true, and then they wandered the desert for a while until they conquered the canaanites...and as the Bible says, lived in houses they did not build and drank wine from grapes they did not grow.
So the common people of old Jerusalem were canaanites. The canaanites were actually semites...like the arabs. Jews percieved a racial difference between themselves and canaanites, and they viewed the canaanites as their slaves. So no, biblical old jerusalem was not a jewish kingdom. It was a canaanite kingdom which happened to be ruled by jews.
In the Ancient era, humans found it impossible to fathom accepting a foreign ruler. This is why when Sargon of akkad conquered sumeria, he made up a story that he was born in sumeria and floated down the river to akkad as an infant in a basket. That was a way to prevent constant revolts and disobedience from the sumerians.